Raab (Upper Austria)

market community Raab
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Schärding
License plate :	SD
Surface:	22.48 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 21 '  N , 13 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '0 "  N , 13 ° 39' 0"  E
Height :	381  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,268 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	101 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4760
Area code :	07762
Community code :	4 14 14
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 7 4760 Raab
Website:	www.raab.eu
politics
Mayor :	Josef Heinzl ( FPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	11 9 3 2 11 9 3 2  A total of 25 seats FPÖ : 11 ÖVP : 9 GREEN : 3 SPÖ : 2
Location of Raab in the Schärding district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Raab is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Schärding in the Innviertel with 2268 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Schärding .

geography

Raab is 381 m above sea level in the Innviertel. The extension is 7.9 km from north to south and 5 km from west to east. The total area is 22.5 km². 15.6% of the area is forested, 72% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bründl (119) including Steinbruck
• Brünning (117)
• Einburg (33)
• Gautzham (68)
• Großprambach (55) including fiefdoms and Ratzenberg
• Kleinpireth (50) with spreader and origin
• Krennhof (63) including Kleinprambach and Krennhof settlement
• Niederham (55) including Billingsedt
• Oberspitzling (19) with Weipoltsham
• Pausing (55)
• Raab (1438)
• Rackersedt (21)
• Riedlhof (71) including Hueb, Red Cross and Wetzlbach
• Thal (15)
• Bad (33)
• Weeg (56)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Niederham, Riedlhof, Raab, Gautzham and Oberspitzling.

coat of arms

Blazon : A raven in silver on a green three-mountain .

The coat of arms was awarded to Raab in 1813 by King Max Joseph of Bavaria at the same time as the market survey and confirmed by Emperor Franz I in 1830 . As a talking coat of arms , the raven symbolizes the place name in a folk etymological interpretation.

history

The place has been Bavarian since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria , it was first mentioned in a document in 955. The parish church is dedicated to St. Michael and dates from the 12th century. The place itself was the seat of a Hofmark , whose owners since 1150 were the nobles von Rurippe-Reurippe, then the lords of Waldeck, the lords of Messenpeck, the bishops of Chiemsee , the barons of Neuhaus, the counts of Tattenbach , the lords of Wesen, the Lords of Aichberg and later Johann (Hans) Veit Graf von Maxlrain , the Reichersberg monastery and finally the Counts of Arco-Valley until 1849 . Raab came to Austria in 1779 after the Treaty of Teschen and the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ). During the Napoleonic Wars briefly royal Bavarian again , the place was raised to market on June 8, 1813 by King Max Josef of Bavaria. Since 1814 Raab has finally belonged to Austria ob der Enns .

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

Until the end of 2002, the community belonged to the Raab judicial district , after its dissolution it was assigned to the Schärding judicial district.

politics

The town council of the market town has a total of 25 members. The 2015 municipal council elections resulted in the following distribution of mandates: 11 FPÖ, 9 ÖVP, 3 GRÜNE and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2015 Josef Traunwieser (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Josef Heinzl (FPÖ)

Population development

In 1991 the community had 2,208 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 2,271 inhabitants. From 2001 to 2011 the birth balance was +71 and the migration balance -72, so that the population decreased to 2,270. It remained constant until 2018.

Culture and sights

Raab Castle

Kellergroeppe Raab

See also:  List of listed objects in Raab (Upper Austria)

• Kellergröppe Raab : Unique for Upper Austria is a cellar lane , a ravine with 26 underground cellars.
• Raab Castle
• Catholic parish church Raab hl. Michael
• Pilgrimage church Maria Schnee in Bründl
• Einburg Castle
• The three-day Inntöne Jazz Festival took place annually in the Rothuberhalle Raab . It has been taking place on Paul Zauner's farm since 2002, provided the weather permits an open-air event at Whitsun.
• The big midsummer celebration takes place every year at the Raab campsite, whatever the weather. The 3rd Friday in June (solstice June 21st) is always chosen. In addition to the fire and sausages, music groups also perform, and there are games for children on the large camping meadow.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Leopold Daxsperger (1896–1963), composer
• Ludwig Daxsperger (1900–1996), organist and composer
• Franz Dobusch (* 1951), former Mayor of Linz (1988–2013)
• Alois Jungwirth (1884–1946), member of the state parliament
• Leonhard Kaiser (around 1480–1527), Lutheran theologian and reformer
• Hugo Lindinger (1911–1988), actor
• Fritz Gerhard Mayr (* 1931), architect
• Josef Pfluger (1857–1929), titular archbishop, auxiliary bishop and vicar general in Vienna
• Wolfgang Stöffelmayr (* 1950), music teacher, director of the regional music school Schärding

People related to Raab

• Josef Pfluger (1857–1929), titular archbishop, auxiliary bishop and vicar general in Vienna
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), a high-ranking Austrian SS functionary, attended elementary school in Raab and was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials in 1946 for war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Hermann Peham (1944–2018), Chamber of Commerce Secretary and Mayor of Perg (1985 to 2007)
• Andreas Sagmeister (* 1966), sculptor and director of the Kunststück studio gallery in Reichersberg

Web links

Commons : Raab (Upper Austria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of Raab (Upper Austria) on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the municipality of Raab
3. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Raab, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ First years of the INNtöne Jazz Festival ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Press review of the first years of the festival ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Linz - The Mayors
8. ↑ Wolfgang Stöffelmayr , in: Regiowiki.at website
9. ↑ Ernst Kaltenbrunner Forum OoeGeschichte.at.
10. ↑ Hermann Peham , in: Regiowiki.at website
11. ↑ Andreas Sagmeister , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at